2 and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
Proverbs 23:2
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Proverbs 23:7–9
7 for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. 9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Job 20:13–15
13 though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, 14 yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him. 15 He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
Acts 27:33–35
33 Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food. 34 So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.” 35 After he had sa…
Sirach 31:20–22
20 Healthy sleep comes from moderate eating. He rises early, and his wits are with him. The pain of wakefulness, colic, and griping are with an insatiable man. (WEB) 21 And if you have been forced to eat, rise up in the middle of it, and you shall have rest. (WEB) 22 Hear me, my so… (WEB)
Sirach 31:16–18
16 Eat like a human being those things which are set before you. Don’t eat greedily, lest you be hated. (WEB) 17 Be first to stop for manners’ sake. Don’t be insatiable, lest you offend. (WEB) 18 And if you sit among many, Don’t reach out your hand before them. (WEB)
Sirach 37:28–30
28 For not all things are profitable for all men. Not every soul has pleasure in everything. (WEB) 29 Don’t be insatiable in any luxury. Don’t be greedy in the things that you eat. (WEB) 30 For overeating brings disease, and gluttony causes nausea. (WEB)
Deuteronomy 12:22–24
22 Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it. 23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. 24 You must not eat the blood; pour it…
Psalms 74:10–12
10 How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? 11 Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them! 12 Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
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